 For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.  The Christian Teacher - Σελίδα 901841Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Gary A. Olson - 2002 - 202 σελίδες
...the intellectual life of the academy Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. —John Milton His... | |
 | Owsei Temkin - 2002 - 302 σελίδες
...Areopagitica, 6. CHAPTER 13 On the Reading of Medical Classics In his Areopagitica John Milton wrote, "For Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain...a potencie of life in them to be as active as that soule was whose progenie they are; nay they do preserve as in a violl the purest efficacie and extraction... | |
 | Joseph Loewenstein - 2010 - 360 σελίδες
...Milton succeeds only in mystifying the relationship: For Books are not absolutely dead things, but doe contain a potencie of life in them to be as active as that soule was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a violl the purest efficacie and extraction... | |
 | Mark Greengrass, Michael Leslie, Timothy Raylor - 2002 - 400 σελίδες
...nonetheless in a bodily relation to the author. 'For Books are not absolutely dead things, but doe contain a potencie of life in them to be as active as that soule was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a violi the purest efficacie and extraction... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1012 σελίδες
...justice on them as malefactors; for books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that Irving intellect that bred them. I know they are as... | |
 | Anna K. Nardo - 2003 - 292 σελίδες
...notebooks the following excerpt from Areopagitica: For Books are not absolutely dead things, but doe contain a potencie of life in them to be as active as that soul whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a violl the purest efficacie & extraction of that... | |
 | Leonora Leet - 2004 - 542 σελίδες
...has been best expressed by Milton: For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. ... as good almost... | |
 | Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen - 2004 - 374 σελίδες
...memory, it is sublimely independent of its material form: 'Books are not absolutely dead things, but doe contain a potencie of life in them to be as active as that soule was whose progeny they are.'7 The crucial phrase in 'Scripta manent' in this respect is that... | |
 | Henry C. Mitchell - 2005 - 244 σελίδες
...some truly startling statements: For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are: nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of the living intellect that bred them. I know they are as... | |
 | Frans H. Van Eemeren, Peter Houtlosser - 2005 - 390 σελίδες
...justice on them as malefactors. For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as... | |
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